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What we learnt building Campaign Monitor
Posted by David Greiner on October 18, 2006 9:45 AM
Late last month Ben and I were lucky enough to be invited by the lovely Maxine Sherrin and John Allsopp to present at Web Directions South, Sydney's premier web design conference. It was a very cool experience for the both of us. We're certainly not seasoned public speakers but everything came together quite well and we were lucky enough to get some great feedback.
Our talk covered how the idea for Campaign Monitor was born, and what we learnt on the way such as deciding what to build, pricing, building on the side, marketing and supporting a web app from Sydney.
Download the podcast of our talk (41 minutes, 27 seconds - 18.9mb)
John and Maxine have been kind enough to make both the slides, transcripts and podcasts for each talk, including our own, available to anyone free of charge. Also, if you're going to be in Canada early February, do yourself a favour and get to the inaugural Web Directions North, the northern hemisphere version which looks to be a cracker with speakers like Doug Bowman, Cameron Moll and Dan Cederholm to name a few.
Aaron
wrote on October 25, 2006 5:28 PM
Great podcast. I think that a lot of your ideas and decisions, even though they are software related, are parallel to any business getting started.
Dave Greiner
wrote on October 27, 2006 5:39 PM
Cheers Aaron, I completely agree and thanks for the kind words.
Richard Banfield
wrote on January 12, 2007 6:40 AM
I still love listening to this again and again. It's like a good kick in the butt.
Dave Greiner
wrote on January 12, 2007 10:18 PM
Thanks Rich, that means a lot coming from someone with your background.
Carlos Reyes
wrote on May 27, 2007 8:32 AM
Good job !!!!
Luciano
wrote on February 26, 2008 5:01 AM
The podcast is down
Do you have any other url to look for Saludos
Kirk Bushell
wrote on September 24, 2008 6:46 PM
Not a bad podcast, great information and always nice to hear about the ups and downs of application development. The rustling around the mic was a tad annoying though. heh
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